Hero Quotes
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic.
It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost,
but the urge to serve others at whatever cost....Arthur Ashe.
When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked
"What is a hero?"…My answer was that a hero is someone who commits
a courageous action without considering the consequences…
Now my definition is completely different. I think a hero is
an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere
and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles....Christopher Reeve.
A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero;
he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees
there isn't enough to go around....Edgar Watson Howe.
The hero is commonly the simplest and
obscurest of men....Henry David Thoreau.
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself
mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero,
he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man
and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered
phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without
thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man
in his world and a good enough man for any world....Raymond Chandler.
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings.
The masses teeming and happy -- common clay, if you
like -- eating, breeding, working, counting their
pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people
you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others
-- the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite
well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute
triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being
marched away between two gendarmes....Jean Anouilh.
No heroine can create a hero through love of one,
but she can give birth to one....Jean Paul.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe
in the heroic makes heroes....Benjamin Disraeli.
Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed,
but win out in the end because they've stayed true to
their ideals and beliefs and commitments....Kevin Costner.
The characteristic of a genuine heroism is its persistency.
All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity.
But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and
do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic
cannot be common, nor the common heroic....Ralph Waldo Emerson.
That's what it takes to be a hero, a little
gem of innocence inside you that makes
you want to believe that there still
exists a right and wrong, that decency will
somehow triumph in the end....Lise Hand.
Aspire rather to be a hero than
merely appear one....Baltasar Gracian.
Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that
spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in
big black headlines. But we can all be heroic in the
little things of everyday life. We can do the helpful things,
say the kind words, meet our difficulties with courage and
high hearts, stand up for the right when the cost is high,
keep our word even though it means sacrifice, be a giver
instead of a destroyer. Often this quiet, humble heroism
is the greatest heroism of all....Wilferd A. Peterson.
A hero is: an individual of elevated moral stature
and superior ability who pursues his goals indefatigably
in the face of powerful antagonist(s). Because of his
unbreached devotion to the good, no matter the opposition,
a hero attains spiritual grandeur, even in he fails to
achieve practical victory. Notice then the four components
of heroism: moral greatness, ability or prowess, action
in the face of opposition, and triumph in at least a
spiritual, if not a physical, form....Andrew Bernstein.
Nothing is given to man on earth -- struggle is built
into the nature of life, and conflict is possible --
the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him
from pursuing the values he has chosen....Andrew Bernstein.
The legacy of heroes is the memory of
a great name and the inheritance
of a great example....Benjamin Disraeli.
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